Today’s Walk in the Word

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy.                    —2 Corinthians 11:2 Jealousy can be deadly. It cost Cain his freedom, Joseph his brothers, and Jesus his life. When it infiltrates a church, it’s toxic: “Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find […]

Be quick to listen, slow to speak.                    —James 1:19 Frank posted this note on his media site: “I would say more here if it weren’t for this voice that tells me not to. If you’re a Christian, you probably think that voice is the Holy Spirit. […]

You will be rewarded when the time is right, if you don’t give up.                   —Galatians 6:9 Yale professor Halford Luccock called patience the “ho-hum” virtue. Theologian John Chrysostom, on the other hand, called it “the queen of virtues.” More often than not, failure can be chalked […]

Consider carefully what you hear.                          —Mark 4:24 In just ten verses, Paul’s Areopagus sermon (Acts 17:22–31) touched all the bases from creation to culmination. There were three reactions to his speech: ridicule, delay, and belief. Some ridiculed. Paul’s sign-off about judgment and Jesus […]

By the grace of God I am what I am.                —1 Corinthians 15:10 Did you know there was an AA before AA? It was called the Washington Temperance Society; it was established in 1840, a century before AA. It began with a group of six men who regularly […]

I pondered the direction of my life.                        —Psalm 119:59 What are your three greatest talents? What three abilities do you apply most effectively? What three attitudes do you have that cause people to be drawn to you? What three attitudes do you have that […]

[You] eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.       —Joshua 24:13 The AARP Foundation reports that over 10 million seniors in the U.S. face hunger every day. Paying for electricity or prescription refills means staring into empty pantries and refrigerators. The numbers nudge me to be aware of others’ […]

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes.       —John 19:23 In her biography, The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom recounted the humiliation of being forced to take off all their clothes and file past grinning guards at Ravensbruck, the notorious women’s extermination camp. During one of those demeaning drills, Corrie remembered […]

Acts of the sinful nature are obvious.                    —Galatians 5:19 The light rail line in Houston, Texas, has been a fiasco of cars crashing into trains. Despite dozens of posted “Do Not Turn” signs, illegal turns have been the cause of most of the smashups. Transit engineers […]

Death is swallowed up in victory.           —1 Corinthians 15:54 We met at the Ritz for Saturday matinees, vicariously living our childhood shoot-’em-up fantasies. Cowboys were our heroes. After the feature film, there was a nail-biting reel, ending with a white-hatter facing a no-way-out catastrophe—fading to the words: “To Be Continued […]